dwot (32.99)

April 2010

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It seems to me that many levels of government around the world have gotten themselves into debt problems that are going to hurt investors. Mish has a post on Spain, which he says makes Greece looking small. [more]

23

Once again the war sirens went off. They sure did scare me the first time they went off as I did not know what they were and, well, they are the same sirens you hear in war movies when bombers are coming in. This time I knew what they were for so I got dressed as fast as I could and headed to the river hoping to see it break up. Unfortunately it broke up sometime during the night and there was just the ice overflowing the banks to see. [more]

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It has been about three and half years since I first learned the word "derivatives" as applied to financial markets. At the time when I asked around no one I knew had heard of them or had any idea as to what they were and searches on the internet on them yield few results. [more]

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I have been reading James Lovelock's latest book. He has what I found an interesting analogy on anedotical evidence versus scientific evidence and uses the example of autism. Some parents have noticed autism symptoms after vaccination on the anedotical side, which is then amplified by the media, yet the science side has found no link. We tend to believe anedotical evidence as usually to do so when it is wrong usually does not cause harm, where as not believing when there is a connection can take you out of the gene pool, so evolution favors the belief in anedotical evidence. [more]

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I am glad to see people well informed and researched on this topic. Sheehan's blog gives some good questions to put to Greenspan for this inquiry. I hope his points get brought up and the commission is well versed on it. I'd love to see a outcome like what I had with my own personal experience with speaking to a commission. [more]